Country Singer Glen Campbell Arrested For "Extreme Drunk Driving" +

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=501&ncid=716&e=9&u=/ap/20031125/ap_on_en_mu/people_campbell

PHOENIX - Country singer Glen Campbell has been arrested for investigation of extreme drunken driving and kneeing a police officer, authorities said.

Phoenix police Sgt. Randy Force said an accident involving a BMW and a Toyota Camry happened about 5 p.m. Monday at a Phoenix intersection.

Although no one was hurt, the driver of the BMW continued on, Force said.

Campbell has been booked into the Madison Street Jail on suspicion of extreme drunken driving, hit and run, and aggravated assault on a police officer, Force said.

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[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Wonder if Glen will have to spend some time in TENT CITY

with Sheriff Joe for kneeing that cop in the groin.

[Catshrink]

2. And wear pink underwear?

that's what Sheriff Joe makes the detainees wear. He's such a moran.

[Bozita]

6. Isn't that the place with the green bologna sandwiches?

An item of pride to Sheriff Joe.

[Syrinx]

3. I like some of his old songs, but...

I thought he had turned his life over to the lord years ago?

[flamingyouth]

4. Too bad to hear that

He is a great guitarist, I think. He played on a lot of the early Beach Boys stuff. Unfortunate to see someone end up like this in such trouble.

Sounds like he was completely inebriated - it's a miracle he didn't hurt or kill someone. Of course, as a famous person who is not selling bongs, he will get off scott-free.

[mitchum]

5. By The Time I Get To Phoenix I'll Be Weaving?

Sorry to hear this. Campbell was a seriously underrated talent

[Catshrink]

7. Like a rhinestone cowboy in Galveston?

[Sting]

8. Rhinestone Cowboy....

is nails scratched across a chalkboard. I do love the song, however, because my grandpa listened to it all the time before he died last year. That was his 'cruising' song. :cry:

[oldleftguy]

9. He's got to be in his 70's?

:shrug:

[Syrinx]

10. 67, I googled

I was thinking more like 61.

[NaMeaHou]

11. Okay. I'm tired of this shit

anyone in the entertainment biz is fair game. One after another, they are trying to take them down. Are they watching and waiting? Yes.

They are trying to take the unformed opinion of the average american and make them think that the performers, no matter when or where they are/were popular, are perverted fucks.

This is the 50's with technology.

Learn and fight back.

[roughsatori]

12. It saddens me to hear that anyone has relapsed in addiction

I know he was sober for some time. I have many addicts and alcoholics in my family--it is devastating when a family member relapses.

[NaMeaHou]

13. What's devastating is that

the media plays it up to the fools. Again.

Who is Glen Campbell associated with for his music? Redneck 60
's people.

Listen to what he wrote, though, and it was not that.

As usual, the media twists.

Who's next?

[Syrinx]

14. "Gentle On My Mind" is one of my favorite songs

And "Galveston" and "Wichita Lineman" aren't bad either. He's a talented guy.

[Old and In the Way]

18. I'm partial to John Hartford's "Gentle on My Mind"....I think he

wrote it to.

Is that a picture of you syrinx9999? Take the coat off and loosen the tie, we aren't conducting any job interview here..... :-)

[Syrinx]

20. I'll have to find Hartford's version.

I really thought Glen Campbell wrote that. Color me embarassed.

And no, that's my Congressman, Artur Davis. I look nothing like that. I'm not nearly that handsome. :)

[DieboldMustDie]

21. Which "he" do you mean?

John Hartford wrote Gentle on My Mind.

[roughsatori]

16. I agree, but when my father relapsed he attempted suicide in front of me

he took an overdose of sleeping pills the day he relapsed and put garbage bag around his head and hung himself. I was 15 and walked into the room and found him. I took him down and called the ambulance and he has been sober for years--so I guess due to that (and the fact that a sister of mine has 45 days of recovery, and another is a relapsed oxy-contin addict jars me to thoughts of the devastation of the family).

But I agree his music was not what it is portrayed as being. I don't think he is famous enough anymore to get used by the media as a distraction for long.

[NNN0LHI]

17. I feel so bad you had to see that. It must have been very traumatic

I admire your ability to talk about it and to keep going. You must be a very strong person. I may have not come through something like that. Really. Thank you for telling of your experience. I know it could not have been easy to discuss here. The word hero keeps coming to me when I think of you. Thanks again.

Don

[roughsatori]

19. Hardly a hero, but a lot of therapy helped

After I typed that I did wonder if it was inappropriate in the Lounge.

I use to facilitate Group Therapy at one of my jobs and it was difficult not to intrude on the group process with my own history (that was frowned on as a technique in the center I worked in).

It did help do disclose those kinds of events when I worked with the "chronic offender" population. Some forensic clients (prisoners and ex-prisoners) came from a similar kind of back ground and my story helped to forge a therapeutic bond.

Thanks so much for your kind and supportive words.

[SmileyBoy]

15. He takes drunk driving to the EXTREME!!!!

Like a rhinestone coooowwwwbooooyyy....

[Paragon]

22. You can take the cowboy out of the country, but...

...fool me twice...fulmuh, can't get fooled again.